The Cookery Blue Book

mixture and weigh, and allow an equal weight of sugar. Boil the pulp ten minutes, then add the sugar and boil thirty minutes (a steady boil), stirring constantly, as it burns very easily. =Orange Marmalade--No. 2.= 4 lemons, 1 dozen oranges, 2 pounds sugar, 1 quart water. Soak oranges and lemons in water over night, previously slicing them in very thin, small pieces. Cook till soft. After partially boiled away, put in the sugar. This quantity makes twelve or fourteen glasses. =Fig Jam--No. 1.= 2 pounds figs, 2 oranges and 2 lemons to each 2 pounds of fruit. Use the juice of the oranges and lemons; also the finest of the pulp and the rind of 1 orange, shredded, as for marmalade. Boil the figs, juice and rind for half an hour, then add 1 pound sugar to each 2 pounds of figs, and boil another half hour. Cover when hot. =Fig Jam--No. 2.= 6 pounds figs, 3 of sugar, 2 lemons, sliced, 1/2 cup sliced green ginger root. Boil three hours. =Apricot Jam.= Pour boiling water on fruit; peel and throw into cold water. Chop the blanched nuts of the stones and add to the fruit (2 nuts to each pound). Cook half an hour; add 3/4 pound sugar to 1 of fruit, and cook fifteen minutes. Put in bowls or glasses, and seal air tight. =Isabella Grape Jam.= Boil grapes until tender, then put through a sieve. Add 3/4 pound sugar to each pound of fruit. Then boil as for jelly. =Currant Jelly.= 1 pound sugar to 1 pint juice. Heat sugar in oven while the juice comes to a boil; add sugar, and boil four or five minutes. =Pineapple Preserve.= Pare and grate pineapples, 3/4 pound sugar to 1 pound fruit. Put fruit and sugar on together, and when it comes to a boil let it cook twenty minutes. =Preserved Grapes.= Eight pounds will make one dozen and a half tumblers. To the grapes put an equal weight of sugar; then squeeze the pulp from the skin. Cook the pulp a few minutes and rub through a